Ranked: Top 50 USMNT players for World Cup, based on club form - ESPN

A week out from the U.S. men's national team roster announcement for the World Cup, it seems we mostly know what head coach Mauricio Pochettino is going to do.

Some questions do linger: Who will be the third goalkeeper? The fourth center back? The fifth central midfielder? The fourth attacking midfielder? Maybe the backup right back?

But those are relatively minor questions, and even some of them might not be as open as they seem. After two years of constant roster flux, a mostly healthy player pool has things fairly settled.

However, what is the overall state of the American player pool heading into the tournament? Are the players heading into the World Cup in good form? Should Pochettino reconsider who his go-to guys are?

We've been trying to figure that out with ESPN's USMNT Player Performance Index for a couple of years now — we use a simple formula looking at how often everyone is playing for their club teams and how good those club teams actually are.

So with the European season nearly fully completed and MLS at least a couple months in, let's try to rank the top 50 Americans one last time before we find out who will represent the U.S. at the World Cup.

— USMNT depth chart: Top 15 players in each position
— USMNT's World Cup weakness: Goalkeeper?
— xDAWG: Who in the USMNT 'has that dog in them'?

For the uninitiated, this is a simple rating system based around three inputs: talent, playing time and team quality. As I wrote about last time, here's how those factors are represented:

Talent comes from Transfermarkt's estimated market value for every player, the best and most straight-forward measure available. Playing time is the percentage of available minutes each player has played for his team in its domestic